Directed by:
Gene WilderScreenplay:
Gene WilderCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
John MorrisCast:
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern, John Le Mesurier, Thorley Walters, Albert Finney, Roy Kinnear, Aubrey Morris, John Hollis (more)Plots(1)
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes...and exposed backsides. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (1)
Beautiful nonsense, from which Marty Feldman's wide-angle gaze emerges as a phantom, the sleek comic charm of Gene Wilder (whose seriousness in fact evokes Leslie Nielsen), several really beautiful sketches and situations... well, perhaps also the cruel musical-opera music that accompanies us throughout the film. I'm reluctant to call this a parody because, taken as a result, the film parodies itself... It is a great pity that the level fluctuates considerably from the dead spots from which the perspective disappears, to the really excellent passages in which all the nonsense is sold with British seriousness and moderation. The influence of the British humorist school simply cannot be denied, and that is very, very good.
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